What is 2.52356 as a fraction?

Answer: 2.52356 as a fraction equals 252356/100000 or 63089/25000

Here is the solution for converting 2.52356 to a fraction:

Step 1:

First, we write 2.52356 as  

Step 2:

Next, we multiply both the numerator and denominator by 10 for each digit after the decimal point. Remember the numerator is the top part of the fraction and the denominator is the bottom part!

2.52356/1

  =  

2.52356 x 100000/1 x 100000

  =  

252356/100000

Step 3:

Next, we find the Greatest Common Factor (GCF) for 252356 and 100000. A factor is a number that divides into another number without any remainder.

The factors of 252356 are: 1  2  4  13  23  26  46  52  92  211  299  422  598  844  1196  2743  4853  5486  9706  10972  19412  63089  126178  252356 
The factors of 100000 are: 1  2  4  5  8  10  16  20  25  32  40  50  80  100  125  160  200  250  400  500  625  800  1000  1250  2000  2500  3125  4000  5000  6250  10000  12500  20000  25000  50000  100000 
So for 252356 and 100000 that gives us a GCF value of: 4

Step 4:

For the last step we reduce the fraction. This just means writing the fraction in the simplest way. To do this we divide both the numerator and denominator by the GCF value we determined in step 3.

252356/100000

  =  

252356 ÷ 4/100000 ÷ 4

  =  

63089/25000

Good work! We have just walked through the steps on how to represent 2.52356 as a fraction.